This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and resources but I wanted to keep this list as short as possible. So these are the best of the best, at least by my opinion. The articles are in no particular order.

If you are interested more in web development articles, read my previous post "Amazing web development articles of Summer 2008 ".

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The summer is near its end and I think it's a good time to see what was hot during past three months. There was enormous number of great articles which made me spend a lot of time selecting the best of the best.

In this article I'll focus on web development, such as jQuery, ASP.NET, SEO and in the next article we'll see what was hot in web design.

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I hope you hate URLs that look like this www.mysite.com/page.aspx?something=1&somethingelse=15&other=abcd&category=32. If you do, let's have a little reminder on rewriting URLs. But, if you don't, please take this article seriously :)

So, you hate such URLs

Or you'll hate it after you realize how easy it is to make it nicer. Besides all, URL rewriting will improve your rankings on search engines. Search engines like Google will easily index your "static" URLs, instead of dynamic URLs.

There are several ways to accomplish URL Rewriting. I'll explain how to do this by using HttpModule and how to overcome the postback bug that is the outcome of URL rewriting.

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After four months of blogging Janko At Warp Speed broke the boundary of 1000 subscribers. Another milestone that this blog celebrates is 200,000+ visits! All this came as another great celebration this month since my baby daughter was born 15 days ago!

I needed to write a few words to thank all my readers and visitors. One thing is for sure - this couldn't be done without your comments, emails, constructive criticism and all your help.

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As you probably know by now I use BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. I have many reasons for this, but the main reason is the fact that the code looks like if I wrote it. That's exactly how I develop applications. That include structure, coding conventions and so on. it's written in ASP.NET and it makes me easy to extend it. That's the answer to the question some of my readers wanted to know: Why you don't use WordPress? (I'm not saying WordPress is not a great engine, I just prefer BlogEngine.NET)

In order to become more powerful engine here are thirteen (more or less) common features that I'd like to see.

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